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Williams Holds Open Season for Marcellus Transco Pipeline

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   |    Thursday,September 04,2014

Williams is initiating an open season from September 3 to September 29, 2014 for the Western Marcellus Pipeline Project, an expansion of the Transco interstate pipeline to provide incremental firm natural gas transportation capacity to growing markets in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern United States by late 2018 (access the project here via Shale Experts' Infrastructure Database).

Transco is a wholly owned subsidiary of Williams Partners, L.P. (WPZ), of which Williams owns controlling interests and is the general partner.

The Western Marcellus Pipeline Project is being designed to provide from one billion to in excess of two billion cubic feet per day of new natural gas transportation capacity from receipt points in the Western Marcellus and Utica supply areas to points as far south as Transco’s Zone 3 compressor station 65 in Mississippi and as far north as the proposed Zone 6 River Road point in Pennsylvania. The project would connect Williams’ Ohio Valley Midstream processing and gathering system in northern West Virginia with the Transco pipeline, the largest volume pipeline system in the United States.

The project is being designed to consist of a greenfield pipeline extending from the Rockies Express pipeline near Clarington, Ohio, and Williams Oak Grove processing plant in Marshall County, West Virginia, to Transco compressor station 165 in southern Virginia. From there, mainline modifications would allow both northbound flow to the proposed River Road point and southbound flow to Station 65 for significant portions of the project capacity.

The final capacity, scope and cost of the project will be determined by the results of the open season.

Rory Miller, senior vice president of Williams' Atlantic-Gulf Operating Area, commented: "The Western Marcellus Pipeline Project will for the first time offer Western Marcellus and Utica producers serviced by Williams’ Ohio Valley Midstream direct access to the broad range of Transco markets in the Mid-Atlantic and southeastern states, as far south as Florida. In addition, this groundbreaking project would provide enhanced supply access for burgeoning Louisiana and Texas Gulf Coast markets accessible through our Station 65 pool."

The proposed project will be subject to approval by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other agencies. For customer inquiries, contact James Corley at (713) 215-4607.

The Western Marcellus Pipeline Project is in addition to the $3.3 billion in capital expenditures planned through 2017 on Transco growth projects designed to serve markets in the Northeast. Transco is the nation's largest and fastest-growing interstate natural gas transmission pipeline system. It delivers natural gas to customers through its 10,200-mile pipeline network whose mainline extends nearly 1,800 miles between South Texas and New York City. The system is a major provider of cost-effective natural gas services that reach U.S. markets in 12 Southeast and Atlantic Seaboard states, including major metropolitan areas in New York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.